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Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Commentary, June, 12 2000
Edward Herman
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In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...
Wagner: Microsoft Ruling
Graphic, June, 11 2000
Pete Wagner
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Bill Gates, Microsoft
Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...
Anderson: Missile defense
Graphic, June, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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national missile defense, missile defense, nmd, star wars, sdi
Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT
Commentary, June, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...
Anderson: Party fundraising
Graphic, June, 08 2000
Kirk Anderson
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fundraising, money in politics, campaign finance
Author: AN EMBARGO TOO FAR
Commentary, June, 08 2000
Guest Author
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Mariam Hamza has beautiful eyes, a loving personality and immense courage. She is also a symbol of one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. This four year old Iraqi leukaemia patient hit the headlines in 1998 when George Galloway, MP f...
Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?
Commentary, June, 07 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...
Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy
Commentary, June, 06 2000
Tim Wise
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We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...
